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Entries for 'JTeel'
Every Day is Thanksgiving
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By Doug Zeiters
-- I've enjoyed deer hunting for many years, so after a frustrating 2006 season of no bucks, a friend asked me to try turkey hunting with him. My friend, Ben Miller, is Amish and enjoys hunting, fishing, and the outdoors as much as I...
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Buckmasters' Budgetmasters (Hot Gear For A Cool Christmas)
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By Jeff Murray
-- Hunters looking for cool gifts to give (or receive) often fall prey to last-minute decisions and trite point-of-purchase displays. Do everyone a favor and look for this year's hottest gear ahead of time. For the budget-minded, he...
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The Whitetail's Scrape
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Text & Photos by Tommy Kirkland
-- As the hunting season begins, communication among whitetails increases through activity known as scraping. This natural function is vital for whitetails to set the stage for successful breeding. Although there ...
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Part 2: The Art & Science of Rattling White-tailed Deer
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By Russell Thornberry
-- How to Rattle Antlers
There are numerous considerations that enter into antler rattling, such as location, position, wind, etc. There are certain limitations when rattling from a treestand as opposed to rattling from a grou...
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Trespasser Scouts Missouri Monster
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By Randall Bowling
-- The hunt took place in Lake of the Ozarks, Mo. I received permission to hunt on a friend's property that sits next to the Osage River and has open fields and wooded areas. Nobody was allowed to hunt this land, and the owner had...
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Soldier's First Season
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By Douglas J. Saffell
-- Here I was at the young age of 36 and getting ready for the deer season to open. I was all ready to go and the night was closing in. I went to bed around 8 p.m. and awoke early the next morning to head out to the area my pos...
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Friday the 13th is my Lucky Day
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By Steve Kidwell
-- While bowhunting in Central Ohio one fall morning, I didn't know this day would be one of my best whitetail hunts ever. On Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1990, I sat on my stand watching a big buck chasing does from daylight until 11 a.m. F...
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West Virginia Warns of Errors in 2007-08 Regulations Booklet
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From West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
-- The Division of Natural Resources strives to provide hunters and trappers with an accurate, well-designed and informative regulations brochure each year. However, given the complexity and number of...
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Ohio Posts Record Bow Harvest Figure
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From Ohio Department of Natural Resources
-- For the fourth straight year, Ohio bow hunters set a record harvest during the first six weeks of the state's deer-archery season, taking 53,982 whitetails. According to the Ohio Department of Natural Res...
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New York DEC Confirms Additional Cases of EHD
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From New York Department of Environmental Conservation
-- Recent tests for Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) in several additional Albany, Rensselaer and Niagara County deer have come back positive, according to the New York State Department of E...
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Roll On!
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By Harry Fristoe
-- Last deer season was about as good as anyone could ever dream about. I took a nice doe during opening morning of muzzleloader season, and I took an 8-point buck on the opening day of the Texas rifle season. The following weekend ...
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A Shot in the Dark
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By Gregg Fuller
-- I was deer hunting in late December 2006 near the central Texas town of Comanche about 100 miles southwest of Fort Worth. I had already taken my allotted trophy buck, and was now working on my cull buck tag. We hadn't seen very ma...
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The Greatest Gift of All
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By Scott W. Johnson
-- I have been hunting for 40 years. I live in northeast Florida, and it is a tradition around here that we hunt with dogs. The woods are thick and the swamps seem to be endless. Once inside what I call a booger swamp you lose al...
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Blessings From Above
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By Larry Porter
-- It was a hot November day in western Tennessee. It was not a day that you would think much about deer hunting. The mosquitoes were out, and it was about 80 degrees. But I had two hours before my daughter's basketball game,...
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The Chainsaw Buck
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By Frank Delph Jr.
-- Maryland's muzzleloader deer season was approaching. I had just purchased a new Thompson/Center .50 caliber muzzleloader and had the tack driver outfitted with a Nikon Omega scope. I was eager to take to the woods. But there ...
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Rut Time is the Right Time
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By Tab R. Troutman
-- It was the last week of the 2006 Pennsylvania archery season, and I had hunted three days without much success. I always schedule vacation at this time to try and hit the rut. However, I hadn't seen anything, much less gotten a...
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